# A good set of generic questions...

Chuck Adams (cadams@weather.brockport.edu)
Mon, 20 May 1996 06:12:09 PDT

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    Don Schwarz drew these hieroglyphs:

    > Has anyone attempted to write a web gateway based on frames?  I've been
    > thinking of doing this for a while, but I have too many projects and don't
    > know enough about HTTP servers to do it yet.  The way I was thinking, any
    > page sent out by the MOO could look something like:
    [snip]
    > and then each frame would only change when it has to.  Anyone see any
    > problems with this (besides that not every browser supports frames) ?

    Ugly.  Annoying.  This describes most frames interfaces.  I'm not
    religious against frames.  They're actually a good idea, or would have
    been if they weren't such a half-assed glommed-on extension to
    Nutscape.

    using server-push to keep the connection open also does not really
    work -- the connection eventually dies.  And forms really don't work
    well as an input device.

    My recommendation would be to talk to Andy Wilson and work on creating
    widgets for tkmoo, a client running under tk/tcl.  He goes by the name
    Networker on JHM.  tk/tcl is freely available from SunSoft for most
    platforms including Windows 3.1 with win32s, Win95/NT, Mac, and source
    for UNIX.